Just Deserts - What Happens to Minnesota's Serious Offenders? Data analyses focus on the outcome of the processing of Minnesota felons during fiscal 1981, with attention to the outcome for particular crimes, the impact of race and gun use in case outcomes for violent crimes, and factors affecting the incarceration of convicted felons.

9/1/1982

NCJ 89983

Panel Study of Victimization by Crime - Final Report This report describes a research effort which focused on the design of the National Crime Survey (NCS), with particular emphasis on panel attrition, the effects of selecting household respondents, and definitions of repeat victimization by crime.

Death-Row Prisoners, 1981 This report describes the U.S. Supreme Court decisions and subsequent State law changes that have resulted in the increase to 838 in the number of inmates sentenced to death by the end of 1981. Part of the Capital Punishment Series

Criminal Justice Information Policies The report presents the results of a survey of the laws and regulations of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and the territories of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands dealing with the security and privacy of criminal history records.

Criminal Justice Projection Package - User's Guide This is a comprehensive set of 10 programs designed to provide the tools for a wide range of forecasting tasks, including policy issues related to arrest projections, general processing flow, and prison population projections.

Confining Felons - Incapacitation as a Sentencing Strategy This assessment recommends against proposed Massachusetts legislation that would assign mandatory minimum sentences to specific crimes, arguing that criminality probably would not be reduced and the prison population would increase substantially.

Prisons and Prisoners Based on the November 1979 Survey of Inmates of State Correctional Facilities and its companion Census of State Correctional Facilities, this bulletin presents data on inmate characteristics, inmate drug and alcohol abuse, confinement conditions, and correctional personnel. Part of the Prisoners Series